Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 05, 2005 6:01pm PDTWell after being kinda bored with Lost for a few episodes last season I really started to get anxious to see new episodes around the end of things and now I'm just dying to see the new one tonight. Funny how I almost quit watching the show and now it's one of my favorites. Tonight Frodo is going to push them all into a volcano and end everything though. Sorry.
- Video iPod getting closer - Tom Cruise's agents pay Katie to even have a baby. It's crazy! - Tech changing golf - Selling the sky - WB and Blu-RayLastly, our cell phones and digital cameras are gonna get like, faster and stuff.
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
I can't put this into a filters.txt update since it won't work generically, but someone on the ASE forums found a way to bypass the login screen when you launch into BF2 using ASE. Open filters.txt in The All-Seeing Eye folder and search for "Battlefield 2" without the quotes. Then change this line:
JoinTemplate: {EXEPATH} +restart 1 +joinServer {ip} +port {port} [ +password "{PASSWORD}"]to this:
JoinTemplate: {EXEPATH} +joinServer {ip} +port {port} +username yourusername +playerPassword yourpassword [ +password "{PASSWORD}"]Replacing yourusername and yourpassword with your actual BF2 username and password. It'll pause for a bit, but it should still work :).
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Updating 1000 items' prices, checking to see if it's in stock or backordered from 4-5 different suppliers is LONGGGGGG.
Anyways, I'm done my rant.
Please share experiences if you ever have built an online store.
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Supreme Commander gets you hot? Just nostalgic for TA? Come play with R3ckless and me! We play pretty frequently at night! Our games have really been heating up lately and TA is showing no signs of age. We've had Big Bertha victories, nuke victories (the game before we changed the dead commander option), rush victories, dogfights, radar play, all kinds of badass RTSage that multiplies in fun as you add more people.
AIM/Shackmessage http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?person=r3ckless or me and let's fucking throwdown!
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Going to pick up trackmania sunrise for 10 bucks though.
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Wha... What the fuck?
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Kemosabi, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it...
Custer, jump on it, jump on it, jump on it...
Apache, jump on it, jump on it, wowowowowowowowowo!!
A-hunga-hunga-hunga-hunga
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Is it time to go to the doctor's? Is this Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (sp?)
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she then proceeded to scream and yell all manner of instanity like a chicken with its head cut off ... oh wait, not like that ... like an angry bird of some sort but with a head ... until the cops came and cuffed her and took her away
damn that was funny stuff! if only my video camera had been charged
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Tonight I was having a weird amalgamated series of dreams. The last thing I remember was something to do with KOCK, picking a song, and playing it for the team on Burnout Revenge and being at the XBL console but having to run up a set of stairs. On about the 3rd step as Im in the middle of a run, a hand picks me up and slams me face down to the floor. This scares me so much I wake up but ... I don't wake up. The familiar ringing in the ears tells me instantly that I am experiencing sleep paralysis. I try to go right to sleep again, try to get back to the dream and go into a lucid dream but can't. So I try to move ... and can't. That is the worse part of this whole thing. Its god damned weird feeling when you are actively thinking about moving a limb and nothing happens.
Anyways, it has been awhile since I talked about this on the shack. And, as most of us are waking up right now, anyone else suffer from this shit?
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I laughed heartily.
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I would of hoped to get better performance in this game.. 15-20fps at 1280x960 at High Detail doesn't make me happy. I don't wanna drop my detail settings though as the fucking game is too pretty.. :(
P4 3.0ghz HT / 2GB RAM / 256mb GEForce 6800GT
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http://www.irandefence.net/showthread.php?t=29
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I am PISSED OFF
If they give this oversight treatment to DNF I'ma make some nasty headlines >:(
XOXOX,
Pink
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yes i know it's a wild, scary question and unlikely to get an answer but i can still try
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(Creative X-Fi Soundcard)
http://www.amdreview.com/reviews.php?rev=cxfi&page=1
Favorite Quote: Overall, this sound card rulez, and the fact I heard that made me want to review this card was that the Audigy2 had 4.6 million transistors of audio power and this new series has 51 million, thats huge, and that makes me a happier gamer.
Umm what? the basis of this guys entire conclusion is how many transistors the card has? how about what it sounds like for a start. How did this guy get a jobs?
Anyways, anyone have this card? is it really worth upgrading to? (I have a Audigy 2 currently).
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Battlefield 1942 SHACKBATTLE Announcement for Sunday, October 9th at 6:00 PM PST (9:00 PM EST)!
Since the patch for BF2 seems to make the game even more buggy than it was before I say we go back to the 1940's and BLOW SHIT UP!!
1942 was a golden age of first person shooter gameplay. The game is well balanced, not to many annoyances exist and it is just all around fun.
We'll be playing BF1942 v1.61 at bf1942.shackbattles.com:14567 - password is in my profile. We'll also be using Teamspeak. EVERYONE should be on Teamspeak, at least to listen even if you don't have a mic. We'll be connecting to rydogg1's server: ts.shackbattles.com - no password required.
Last week we had a good but small game, and good fun was had all around. We've gotten a few BF1942 newbies involved. If you're new to the game and need training or help, I (and several others) should be able to spend time walking you through the different classes, weapons, tactics, etc. Just let me know!
We'll be playing Vanilla BF1942 1.61! But the map rotation will also include Shackmaps and the tournament map pack. You can get them at the links below.
All right, here's the batch of useful download links if you don't have them:
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=4501
BF1942 anything -> 1.6
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5928
BF1942 1.6 -> 1.61
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=5284
Shack map pack
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=6351
EA Tournament map pack
http://www.toldyouimhardcore.com/umax/ShackTraining.zip
Shack training map, which will be running before the battle for training purposes
http://www.goteamspeak.com/
Teamspeak homepage
http://www.redhavana.net/teamspeak/
cpt_gloval's guide to setting up Teamspeak -- I believe he recently updated this
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10065483
Annother utility for those of you that use speakers and a mic with teamspeak.
http://www.qbnut.com/tso/
Teamspeak Overlay, puts the usernames of those who speak onto your screen. Has caused some stability issues for a few people in the past.
If you do not download these maps, you will not be able to play them.
Punkbuster will be disabled for the time being.
The earlier thread spawned some interesting BF2 mod talk...
http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10862741
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So, I'm going to see the console next week. Hopefully, depending on scheduling, I'll have a chance to meet with Peter Moore or some other representative.
I'm preparing my own list of questions, but I thought I'd be nice and ask you all, is there any burning question you must have an answer to?
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Who planned that? hah
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Come work on Savage 2
Details: http://www.s2games.com/jobs.php
If you have any questions I can probably answer them. This is a great opportunity because it's a fun small team and you won't be turned away for lack of experience if you can show us high caliber art.
(reposted dueto being ER'd)
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Where's that 1gb oblivion demo torrent mpg thingo?
I've found a 20 minute 120mb one on file rush - is it the same but re-encoded?
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As for the story that would explain why this happens.... ah who cares. This is Quake, go with the flow. :)
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So, I'm taking a couple of economics classes this semester, and for someone who hasen't looked at a math book for 7 years or so, it can get kinda confusing, especially since everything is encrypted in economics lingo.
(This is translated so the technical terms are probably way off)
a) Assume that the demand for a specific product is given by "p = 400 - x", where "p" is the price per unit and "x" is the produced amount. The markets supply curve (?) is given by "p = 100 + x".
Find the market balance (?) under a free market.
I managed to decrypt this into normal speak, where it turned out that even I could understand it, and that "x = 150, p = 250".
b) Assume now that the production causes pollution. The socioeconomical (?) marginal pollution cost is given by "f(x) = x". Explain and show that the socioeconomical marginal cost by producing the product is given by "S(x) = 100 + 2x". Decide the socioeconomical optimal production amounts, and compare this to the market balance (?) under a free market. Also compare the socioeconomic "right/correct" (???) price to the free market price.
What the hell is that suppose to mean? Is anyone able to decrypt that? HALP PLZ
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MindFlayers. I know I've beat them before, but now ONE of them gives me a run for my money and I'm up against a room full of them. Any tricks? This is frustrating.
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http://www2.ati.com/multimedia/radeonx1k/ATI-Demo-ToyShop-v1.1.zip
zipped WMV of one of the X1800XT tech demos.
HOLY SHIT
can we have Max Payne 3 now plz
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haha @ the picture that was taken. the woot guys are hilarious
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how do i make smaller checkboxes?
http://www.lostlinks1.net/comic/comic1.htm